OGAWA, Y. Fetal Pulmonary Surfactant in Amniotic Fluid of Ewes. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1972, 108 (4), 307-315-The phospholipids in the amniotic fluid from healthy pregnant ewes at various stages of gestation were analyzed in relation to the fetal pulmonary surfactant. The most abundant phospholipid was phosphatidylcholine which increased as the term approached. Analysis on the positional specific...

PURPOSE To evaluate the performance of a Brazilian reference curve of fundal height (FH) regarding its capacity of screening the deviations of volume of amniotic fluid using a Brazilian reference curve of amniotic fluid index (AFI) as gold standard. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study evaluating 753 pregnant women receiving prenatal care at the public health services of João Pessoa (PB),...

background: adhesion is a common complication of gynecology surgery so different barrier agents and solutions have been used during these operations to separate and protect tissues from adhesion after surgery. adept is one of these solutions that have been postulated to reduce the chance of adhesion following gynecolgy surgery. objective: to evaluate the effect of 4% icodextrin in reducing adhe...

Our laboratory continues to be actively involved in the development of new biomarkers for prenatal diagnosis using maternal blood and amniotic fluid. We have also developed a mouse model that demonstrates that cell-free fetal (cff) DNA is detectable in the pregnant maternal mouse. In human maternal plasma and serum we have analyzed factors that are important in the clinical interpretation of cf...

OBJECTIVE To describe the association between echogenic amniotic fluid and first-trimester fetal acrania. METHODS Nine fetuses with acrania were examined between 11 weeks' and 13 weeks 6 days' menstrual age for the presence of echogenic free-floating particles in the amniotic fluid. Cases were classified into 3 types according to the echogenicity of the amniotic fluid: similar to (type 0), sl...

Human fibronectin was isolated from second-trimester amniotic fluid, from amniotic fluid obtained at term and from adult plasma. The amniotic-fluid fibronectins had a slightly higher apparent molecular weight on sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis than the plasma fibronectin. Early- and late-amniotic-fluid fibronectin had 9.5 and 9.6% carbohydrate respectively, whereas pl...